Kutztown lies smack dab in the middle of the Allentown-Reading PA electronic music corridor!

There's EM in Reading? What venue(s)?

This statement was tongue in cheek, Bill, partly triggered by Jeremy Sawruk's statement on FB, " *Does double take* Kutztown? I'm so confused, but I'll go." Apparently he's forgotten that he emailed me last spring and we talked a bit.

I have heard of some e-m people in Reading, no venues to my knowledge.

More details on the event to come over the next couple of weeks._________________When the stream is deep
my wild little dog frolics,
when shallow, she drinks.

If that's the same person I met at the Deep Listening Conference at RPI a few months ago (which I am pretty sure it is), tell Meg Schedel I say hello--although she may not know who I am unless you show her my picture. I just attended and although we chatted a number of times, I don't think I ever introduced myself. She probably just thought of me some homeless man who happened to stumble into the conference.
Steve

Here is a virtual instrument dataflow diagram for *Attack of the Wekinators*. Dr. Schedel will be composing additional pieces of music, perhaps to include an invited guest performer, that we will announce later. Margaret will also present a talk. The overall theme of the seminar is to encourage the participation of female students in conducting research into computer music and related graphics. In this piece Dr. Rebecca Fiebrink's Wekinator will extract gesture data from our playing and use it to drive graphics and spatial sound projection in the planetarium. The piece has four movements, Attack-Decay-Sustain-Release, as inspired by the sonic envelope of a single note. I have started composing this piece and working on the software with students Nicole Cresse and Kên Rôhlfing. There is still lots of work to be done.

You could get someone to walk around and take still shots of the audience, feed them through an image filter that strips-to-transparent about half the internal pixels (the dark areas) along with the boundaries, then let the Wekinator classifications determine translation, rotation, scale, offset, rate of fade, all the usual stuff.

I updated the poster above to reflect the fact that (I am pretty sure) that Paul Prudence will be performing.

Also, the Kutztown University Percussion Ensemble will be playing an opening piece, probably with audio processing, and certainly with generated visualization.

I am not sure whether we will be streaming live, but we will record and play the event on radio.electro-music.com at some point soon after, if not during._________________When the stream is deep
my wild little dog frolics,
when shallow, she drinks.

Back in the days of working for Bel Labs' DSP organization, we'd ship reference designs, which were basically toy designs that used the evaluation cards (DSP hardware), tools and libraries (software) that customers would use to figure out how to build a real thing. A reference design is a simple example design.

Here are recordings for the reference design for the four movements of Attack of the Wekinators, namely, Attack, Decay, Sustain and Release. The performance instrumentation and improvisation will sound substantially different. They will be the "real thing."

March 29 is fast approaching, here are the directions to Kutztown University in eastern PA, here is a campus map. The planetarium is in building 11 (Grim), please park in lot B2. FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC._________________When the stream is deep
my wild little dog frolics,
when shallow, she drinks.

KUTZTOWN, Pa., Mar. 7— Kutztown University will host a Computer Music Seminar, featuring a performance by Dr. Margaret Schedel, an assistant professor in the Department of Music at Stony Brook University, from 6 – 9 p.m., Saturday, March 29 in the Grim Planetarium.

Schedel, who is an accomplished composer and cellist, specializes in interactive media and is on the board of the International Computer Music Association. In addition to performing several processed cello pieces, Schedel will give a presentation on her involvement as a women in computing research.

The event will also feature a performance by KU student performer Nicole Cresse, who will co-compose one piece of music and perform on the electric violin with Schedel on the cello and Dr. Dale Parson, an associate professor of computer science at KU, on the electronic banjo. The music will be digitally processed to extend the sonic range of each stringed instrument.

All performances will feature video art projected onto the planetarium dome. Custom computer software written at KU will translate the live music into graphical visualization on the dome. The three musicians will literally be playing the planetarium as a musical-visual instrument. KU students will assist with the graphical visualization.
This event is free and open to the public.

If someone can get me a representative CD or CDR in time, I can play it on the air (both Galactic Travels [WDIY] and Thought Radio [WMUH]) for further promotion.

Thanks, Bill!

I'll see what I can do. "Representative" is funny because I have no idea. Our dream is that it will all come together the day before. It will. There is a lot of water that needs to flow under a bridge between now and March 29 _________________When the stream is deep
my wild little dog frolics,
when shallow, she drinks.

Time to bump this thread. Event happens in one week, with some very custom visualization software to make its debut _________________When the stream is deep
my wild little dog frolics,
when shallow, she drinks.

More photos to follow later on FB, and some recordings to be posted here on electro-music. Signal levels are a little low, but I should be able to recover something listenable when I get time._________________When the stream is deep
my wild little dog frolics,
when shallow, she drinks.

I tried posting today's 9 minute 15 second video I made using Margaret Schedel's March 29 recording of her piece Oppositional Surge on YouTube, but they processed it into such a poor state that I took it down and posted it here._________________When the stream is deep
my wild little dog frolics,
when shallow, she drinks.

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